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Title: Adapter For Ch Joystick & Pedals??
Post by: drums on October 24, 2003, 02:26:52 PM

jUST A  quick question about if there are any adapters or something to use on my OLD Flight stick and Pedals.??  I just got new PC and only has USB PORTS - Can i buy something that will let me use the GAMEPORT Joystick and pedals???





drums

Title: Adapter For Ch Joystick & Pedals??
Post by: MaddogJoe on October 24, 2003, 03:58:41 PM

I got an adapter at Radio Shack that I plug my CH stuff into then I plug that into a USB port. I'm still running win98, so I don't know if it will work on XP, but for 8 bucks, its worth a try !

Title: Adapter For Ch Joystick & Pedals??
Post by: drums on October 24, 2003, 09:04:24 PM

Thanks Maddog!

I'll give that a try. Appreciate the time, and ill let you know how it works.

Thanks again,

drums

Title: Adapter For Ch Joystick & Pedals??
Post by: spiffykraits on October 25, 2003, 03:14:28 PM

Rockfire Taiwan obtainable at Radio Shack or "Maplins" in the UK make a USB to gameport adaptor.  However, on XP OS if your CH joystick/and/or throttle is a programmable one you won't be able to program it with Speedkeys in XP, it will only work in Win98/ME, unless you have a a double boot system for both OS's, once programmed in 98 it will still work in XP via a gameport.

You will only be able to use the Windows CH stick defaults in XP via the Rockfire USB adaptor, but it will work with AHs own joystick and keymapping as a 4 button stick I believe so it is still usable. Depends what CH stick you have.  You "could" fit a PCI soundcard with a gameport to your new PC, and disable any onboard sound, to still use all functions on CH programmble sticks, but sound card gameports on newer fast PCs tend to spike unless the new MBs have an onboard gameport.

Title: Spif: Does force feedback work in XP?
Post by: Moochie on November 04, 2003, 07:06:07 PM

Hi Spif

Mohai here from the old Kraits Air Warrior days.  

I have the same old ForceFX/Prothrottle/CH Pedals setup and have managed to get most of it working in XP.  I realise that I need to set up dual boot to be able to use Speedkeys (although I have wondered if the Win 98 emulator in XP will work as well as dual boot).

However, I wondered if the Force Feedback aspects of the ForceFX stick can be got to work in XP?

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

Cheers,

Rory
Moochie
Mohai